blandishment
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Definition of blandishment
: something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement —often used in plural … refuses to yield to their blandishments …— Irving Babbitt
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Among its many blandishments is an infinity pool that serves as a ceiling for the den. — New York Times, "Summer’s Most Style-Savvy Movie Is a Cartoon," 3 July 2018 Among its many blandishments is an infinity pool that serves as a ceiling for the den. — New York Times, "Summer’s Most Style-Savvy Movie Is a Cartoon," 3 July 2018 Among its many blandishments is an infinity pool that serves as a ceiling for the den. — New York Times, "Summer’s Most Style-Savvy Movie Is a Cartoon," 3 July 2018 Among its many blandishments is an infinity pool that serves as a ceiling for the den. — New York Times, "Summer’s Most Style-Savvy Movie Is a Cartoon," 3 July 2018 But the sweet glaze of memory, like the blandishment of false philosophy, still offers glints of something darker beneath the surface. — Jesse Green, New York Times, "Review: The Chaos Beneath the Chorale in ‘The Lucky Ones’," 31 Mar. 2018 Among its many blandishments is an infinity pool that serves as a ceiling for the den. — New York Times, "Summer’s Most Style-Savvy Movie Is a Cartoon," 3 July 2018 Among its many blandishments is an infinity pool that serves as a ceiling for the den. — Ruth La Ferla, The Seattle Times, "In “Incredibles 2,” the Parr house is the breakout star," 9 July 2018 The sweetening tone was just the latest change in a roller-coaster game of brinkmanship — talks about talks with two unpredictable world leaders trading threats and blandishments. — Washington Post, "Korea summit after all? Trump says ‘everybody plays games’," 26 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'blandishment.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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